On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> My current inclination is to generate an error on encountering an
> incomplete IPv4 address.
I think this is the right move.
The old Unix IP address parsing was partly a result of the slack coding
that was normal at the time, and partly to do with old-style classful
addressing. Neither of these are best current practice any more. In
addition to that, slack IP address parsing has led to a number of security
problems resulting from obfuscated URLs. It's a bad idea all round.
Tony.
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http://dotat.at/ ${sg{\N${sg{\
N\}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}\
\N}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}
